I talk to James over at Linear logic. His interested in your input on what sensors we would like to monitor when using the scangauge 2. I copied and pasted this from PSN.

Hello everyone. I'm one of the engineers that works for Linear Logic (the company that manufactures the ScanGauge) and I'm glad to see everyone is enjoying the FICM xgauge along with the other xgauges available for the 6.0L. I'm curious if anyone in this thread would be interested in helping develop a few additional XGauges for the 6.0L

I have some documents from Ford that list a whole slew of parameters that might be possible on diesels, but to be honest I don't know which ones (if any) would be important to the diesel community, so I was hoping a few people here wouldn't mind taking a look at what I have and providing some feedback. If you all would like I could post a list of all the parameters I have data on, and if any of the parameters seem of interest let me know and I'll code the XGauge up for testing. Can't promise they will work, but it's certainly worth a shot.

Just want to gauge everyone's interest before I just start posting up huge lists and annoying people. Also, if anyone has any questions about the ScanGauge or XGauges feel free to ask.

From another thread and forum from Linear Logic: (I'm going to be trying some of these the next few days.)

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Originally Posted by DieselStroke
Here are some other gauges that i would like to see:
I've gone through and created as many XGauges as I could from the data I have. I tried to put the XGauges I felt had the best chances of working at the top of each section. I also put notes where I could to give as much information as possible about each XGauge. Unfortunately the documents I'm working from give me very little in terms of actual descriptions of the sensors. Try them all if you can and let me know what your results are.

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Originally Posted by DieselStroke
Throttle Position Sensor (The one on the website does not work)
Throttle Position 1 (Volts)
TXD: 07E0220917
RXF: 046245090617
RXD: 3010
MTH: 0064040000000
NAM: TP1
Note: Voltage of the ETC Throttle Position Sensor number 1

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Originally Posted by DieselStroke
EGR Valve (Open or closed, the one on the website does not work)
EGR Duty Cycle (Percent)
TXD: 07E022166E
RXF: 04620516066E
RXD: 3010
MTH: 006440000000
NAM: EGR (This one is different than in PDF file, will try it later. edit 3-19-11-6:35 am PDT)

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Originally Posted by DieselStroke
I cant figure out what More > More > CMDS does, something about entering commands to be sent to the vehicle? Does anyone have any idea what commands and what they do... possibly even have a command?
The CMNDS feature is pretty much an early version of XGauge. It allows you to create a signal you want to transmit to the ECU, and it will then display a response if it got anything back. The XGauge feature is pretty much better in almost every way, although it's easier to use the CMNDS feature to determine which emissions tests have passed on your vehicle. You can find a nice walk through on how to do that here:

The numbers you show for the "boost" parameter indicate that it's for a PWM-based vehicle, not a CAN-based vehicle. Any parameter for a CAN-based (Well, FORD CAN-based) vehicle will start with a "07E0" in the TXD field.

Has anyone had any luck with the FICM codes? I read in the other thread that people had luck with them at first but had to reset the whole gauge (to default) after they started their trucks the second time.

The numbers you show for the "boost" parameter indicate that it's for a PWM-based vehicle, not a CAN-based vehicle. Any parameter for a CAN-based (Well, FORD CAN-based) vehicle will start with a "07E0" in the TXD field.

-blaine

You are right there! No wonder it goes negative on mine. I'll see if I can find a different one. Thanks blaine

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Originally Posted by High Binder

Has anyone had any luck with the FICM codes? I read in the other thread that people had luck with them at first but had to reset the whole gauge (to default) after they started their trucks the second time.

As far as the FICM codes. The FICM main power is all that I have in mine as of yet. It has worked perfectly.

I'll be entering more of these on Monday. I just got back from blowing money at the clinic for this dang what ever it is. And Monday is a day off, so I'll post up more results then.

As I look at the xgauge PDF file. all those listed above are CAN. Others forms in the PDF start with a "C" (PWM) or a "6" (ISO & VPW & Ford PWM) in the TXD. (first set of numbers)

Are you seeing something different?

DUH--guess I couldn't process that tidbit of information. My bad--LOL.

From the Xgauge table of 6.0 they list one for manifold air temp that I thought might have been IAT2 but since it's different from the IAT2 that you posted I'm wondering if they're using it for fAT??? Since I haven't entered it to see if fAT and MAT were the same I wondered if you knew?

FICM main voltage seems to work fine on mine. (48.5-49 volts, for the record)

On the VGT duty-cycle number, the given numbers work "backwards", or at least seem to; 15% duty cycle is "wide open" (i.e. high flow rates), and 85% is "closed down" (low flow rates).

Random thoughts:

If you're REALLY interested in "hacking" these things, I saw a pic on a website somewhere that had a user daisy-chaining two of these things together, for a total of EIGHT x-gauge displays. I would presume that since you can chain TWO together, you can chain as many as you can afford, until the signal level gets so low that it can't be read any more.

I spent about half an hour trying to wrap my mind around the writing of these, until I discovered I couldn't think in HEX very well... I could have figured that out, but not having access to the PID numbers was what killed my efforts.

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